The decision to embrace energy stocks and largely avoid financials helped stocks featured in Weekday Traders outperform their benchmarks.

Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a two-part series on how stocks featured in Weekday Traders during 2007 and the first half of 2008 fared through June 30. Today, we examine the results of our bullish calls. Tomorrow, we look at our bearish bets.

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